I was in Ted Ts'o's "Recovering from Linux Hard Drive Disasters" (
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/training-program/full-training-program#T4)
 at LISA one year. Watching him recover data from a crashed fs is a thing
of beauty.

You CAN do amazing things. I'd really recommend that class if you're going
to LISA.

--Matt



On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:52 AM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:

> In practice, you need to be quite an expert to do anything other than -y,
> and even then you will probably only do so if the disk has data on it that
> you cannot recover any other way.
>
> for just about any production situation, you would want to build a new
> system or restore from replica/backup instead of doing a manual fsck, but
> that assumes that you _have_ the backup and can correctly recreate the
> server, which should be the case, but sometimes isn't ;-p
>
> David Lang
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Kevin Sandy wrote:
>
>  We recently had some issues with one of our filers that wreaked all kinds
>> of havoc on our systems. Many had to be rebooted to recover from read-only
>> root filesystems, and quite a few of those needed a manual fsck. Which led
>> me to wonder:
>>
>> When faced with filesystem inconsistencies at boot, does anyone do
>> anything
>> other than just 'fsck -y' on the device? I've never known anyone to do
>> anything else, but I would have to assume some do, otherwise wouldn't it
>> be
>> automatic?
>>
>> -- kevin
>>
>
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